Tobacco Tax Workshop Instructor

Nigar Nargis received her Bachelor and Master of Social Science
degrees in Economics from the University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. She was
awarded PhD in Economics in 2003 under the supervision of Professor
J.S. Butler from the Department of Economics at Cornell University.

Nigar has written three papers for her PhD dissertation. The first
paper investigates intra-household decision making on savings for old
age in the U.S. The second paper studies the moderate wage growth in
France compared to productivity growth as an explanation for high
employment performance in the 1990s. The third paper looks into the
volatility of individual position in the earning distribution and its
implications for the measurement of economic mobility.

She joined IZA as a research affiliate in January 2003 and became a
Research Fellow in May 2008.

Nigar was a post-doctoral fellow of the Canadian Institutes of Health
Research Strategic Training Programme in Tobacco Research and
affiliated with the Department of Psychology at the University of
Waterloo in Canada during 2006-2009.

She is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Economics of the
University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Currently, she is also serving as a
senior economist at the Tobacco Control Economics Unit of the Tobacco
Free Initiative of the World Health Organization.

Current Research: Compensatory behaviour of smokers and their price
responsiveness, employment impact of the microcredit programme in
Bangladesh, economics of tobacco control.